Word: telegraphe
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...Blackshirts to storm and capture the then-Socialist stronghold of Ravenna. At the time of the decisive March on Rome in 1922 he was only 26 but already a Fascist Militia General, one of the historic Quadrumvirs who entered Rome in the actual March, directed by Editor Mussolini by telegraph from the office of Popolo d'ltalia which is still the Dictator's family newspaper. Queerest thing about the entire coup was that, like Hitler's in 1933, it was "perfectly legal," with popular votes and delegated representatives of the people supporting in Chamber & Senate the new Cabinet presently formed...
...Harvard Square Telegraph Office yesterday afternoon we witnessed a drama which seemed to sum up completely the struggle of the last vestiges of Puritanism against a newer and freer world, the protest of the sturdy native stock against the influx of "foreigners" brought in by the new educational policies of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...favorite was Consolidated Gas, followed by Electric Bond & Share and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. All these have since disappeared from the list, which is now led by General Motors, International Nickel and Chrysler. *So urgent is its rearmament program that Britain last week halved its 20% duty on steel, abolished its duty on iron...
Nearly 700,000 stockholders were pleased last week by a letter they received from Walter Sherman Gifford. As president of their American Telephone & Telegraph Co. he was able to tell them that in 1936 their company had earned full dividends on its common stock for the first time in five years. Since 1930 this $5,000,000,000 enterprise has maintained its $9 annual dividend only by dipping freely into surplus. The number of Bell telephones in service dropped from a peak of 15,500,000 in 1930 to 12,700,000 in 1933, earnings from $12.57 per share...
...named Walter Lamb had joined in wedlock Hillbilly Charlie Johns, 22, and Eunice Winstead, 9 (TIME, Feb. 8). Newshawks sought out Parson Lamb, a husky, red-headed Baptist living with his wife in a two-room cabin in Hancock County, only county in Tennessee which has no telephones, no telegraph, not a foot of paved highway. Said Preacher Lamb, who for some years has lived only a mile away from the Winstead family: "I didn't know she was so young. Nine's a little early. Anyway, they had a license and she told...